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2024-04-29
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The New Rabotnik [298] Two of the best Dutch novels from the Hitler period, its prelude and its consequences, “Over the water“ (1998) by H.M van den Brink, and “The Stone Bridal Bed” (1960, Harry Mulisch) introduce a mysterious person with the name Schneiderhahn. That is A. Schneiderhahn: one as Alexander, the other as Alfred. But it feels like he is the same person, as if observed by different mirrors. There identity as difficult to identify, the question is: can we trust them, or are they hidden Nazi – criminals? This video is more about Alfred, but he has some characteristic from Alexander. And the question now is, has this Alfred – Alexander something to do with the expulsion and death of the boys that lived in the Jewish orphanage in the centre of Amsterdam. In 1943 almost hundred of them were transported to and murdered in concentration camp Sobibor. A great tragedy, but more than thirty years after the war it was forgotten, and the remaining building was destroyed, and replaced by a mega structure, the Opera House. This new building washed way a great part of the heart of the historical Jewish neighbourhood. One aspect is also that the historical Zuiderkerk, as central point in the view of the Amstel river, lost its radiating function and became more like a unlikely ornament of the opera building. In this video we show an unexpected detail of this great topographic loss. Yes, even Charlie Chaplin plays a part in this story, in which the central question is: which part of the Schneiderhahn’s is responsible: Alfred or Alexander?